OFFICIAL RESULTS THREAD

[amandaa.xxox]

36. In a second experiment the same participants were required to memories a list of 13 names. One hour later the participants were tested and were asked to list the names that they remembered.

In this experiment the rate of forgetting on the test would most likely have been

A. The same as for the nonsense syllables.
B. Slower than for the nonsense syllables.

i got this question right but i don't understand how you can see it as being A??
if they are given a list of names (which you can make more meaningful links with when compared to nonsense syllables) the rate of forgetting will be slower because you aren't forgetting them as quick as words which mean nothing to you?

[Scooby]

VCAA 2010 - 2a:
"Forgetting is most rapid immediately after learning. The type of material learned does not affect the relative rate of
forgetting"

[julie9300]

36. In a second experiment the same participants were required to memories a list of 13 names. One hour later the participants were tested and were asked to list the names that they remembered.

In this experiment the rate of forgetting on the test would most likely have been

A. The same as for the nonsense syllables.
B. Slower than for the nonsense syllables.

i got this question right but i don't understand how you can see it as being A??
if they are given a list of names (which you can make more meaningful links with when compared to nonsense syllables) the rate of forgetting will be slower because you aren't forgetting them as quick as words which mean nothing to you?

What I learnt regarding the works of Ebbinghaus was that the complexity of the material being learnt and (intelligence of the learner) does not affect the rate of forgetting, meaning that the rate of forgetting isn't the same as the amount of words remembered. SO in other words if you were to graph one's rate of forgetting, the general shape should always be the same.

[amandaa.xxox]

but i don't think you have necessarily learnt the words...
my textbook says that the rate of forgetting for names is lower because you can make meaningful links with names and you're more likely to forget nonsense syllables because they literally mean nothing to you.
i guess i looked at the question that way, as you can make a meaningful link with it which entails you remembering it more than words that mean nothing.
so i guess maybe it depends how you look at it so it is very ambiguous when you look at it that way and other ways...
so i dunno that's just how i interpreted it

[dou0014]

I did A as well.  This is strange.

[Genericname2365]

So for some hideously irritating reason VCAA have made it so that every external link to a VCE page on their site redirects to the VCE main page (unless I'm missing something), and I couldn't find the grade distribution for 2012 results under statistics. Does anyone know where to find it?

[joseph95]

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/statistics/2012/midyear/midyear.aspx

[Genericname2365]

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/statistics/2012/midyear/midyear.aspx

Cheers. 

[tum1106]

If I got a B for unit 3, how many marks is it out of 50??